After I stopped trying, a rich woman trained me into a demon emperor.

The power of the Primordial Chaos, wrapped in the profound true essence of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, slammed head-on into the surface of the peeling curved blade.

The blade and the fist collided with a dull thud.

His skinned tiger's mouth burst open, and he was pushed back five zhang by the force of the punch.

The soles of the shoes plowed two white marks into the rocks.

But he held firm.

"Hey."

He peeled the skin and shook his numb hands.

"That's interesting."

The man with the bone staff and the woman with the iron ring behind him attacked at the same time.

With a tap of the bone staff, more than a dozen skeletal arms emerged from the ground and reached for Zhou Ran's ankles.

The woman with the iron ring flicked her ten fingers, and ten iron-gray energy lines wrapped around Zhou Ran's limbs and neck from different angles.

Zhou Ran's feet trembled.

The primordial energy erupted from the soles of his feet, and the skeletal arm turned to dust upon touching the sole of his shoe.

He twisted his body at the same time, and the iron-gray energy lines flew past his forearm, with only one wrapping around his left wrist.

The woman with the iron ring tightened her grip.

The air lines tightened, cutting into the scales.

Zhou Ran didn't rush to break free.

He pulled back with his hand, dragging the person and the string together.

The woman with the iron ring cried out in surprise, and her body flew involuntarily toward Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran delivered a knee strike to the face.

His knee struck her in the abdomen.

With the power of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator combined with the physical strength of the Primordial Overlord Body, this knee strike shattered her protective true essence.

The person was thrown out and crashed into the rock wall, with half of their body embedded in it.

The chest cavity caved in, and a crisp cracking sound came from the broken neck.

dead.

The man with the bone staff rolled back the whites of his eyes and instinctively stepped back.

The smile on his face also disappeared.

"Late stage of Golden Core?"

He stared at Zhou Ran.

"When did you...?"

"By the way, you don't know yet."

Zhou Ran flicked the remaining fragments of the energy lines off his left wrist.

"It was broken right in front of your King Yama."

Peeling skin made his face completely somber, and he stopped trying.

He held the curved sword horizontally in front of him, and his aura began to rise.

With his Golden Core cultivation fully unleashed, the Yin Fire of the executioner's origin seeped from his numerous scars, causing hundreds of old wounds to burn simultaneously.

"Bone Seven, keep him occupied."

He peeled the skin and spoke in a low voice.

The man with the bone staff gritted his teeth and nodded. He tapped the ground repeatedly with his bone staff, and dozens of bone arms, bone spears, and bone walls surged out from all directions, turning the entire space into a forest of bones.

Zhou Ran traversed the bone forest, crushing a bone with every step.

But the bones grew faster than he could step on them, becoming increasingly dense.

It's not about hurting him, it's about trapping him.

This gives the skinner time to build up their strength.

Zhou Ran didn't plan to wait.

The Golden Elixir of the Mind is operating at full speed.

The hundred-zhang law domain was compressed into a materialized golden light membrane within this thirty-zhang sealed space.

Just as the Golden Core reached its maximum rotation speed, the golden light of the Heavenly Dao flashed across the surface of the core, drawing away a wisp of true essence.

The interest on the penalty arrived as scheduled.

Zhou Ran didn't care.

"Yin Yang Technique!"

He made a hand seal with one hand, and the black lotus within his body once again ignited with black karmic fire.

The Yin energy of Bone Seven flowed along the sharp white bones and gathered in Zhou Ran's body.

"What?"

Gu Qi was horrified; he felt his entire body's power was out of control.

It desperately tried to break free from its body.

The entire Bone Forest collapsed with a "crash".

The fragments were scattered all over the ground, just like crushed eggshells.

The man with the bone staff turned pale.

His innate technique was bound to the bone staff, and all the spirit patterns went dark.

"impossible!"

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Ran was already in front of him.

He slapped him on the top of the head.

A chaotic force poured in, and the Golden Core True Essence shattered his sea of ​​consciousness defenses.

The man with the bone staff rolled his eyes and fell straight down, dying instantly.

The two late-stage Golden Core cultivators met in less than ten breaths.

However, the cost was also very heavy.

The punishment from Heaven was to remove 30% of the power within his golden core, not just a single attribute.

Therefore, although he absorbed a large amount of Yin energy from Gu Qi.

However, the primordial energy and blood, the Buddhist vows, and the demonic energy that sustains his body were once again drained by 30%.

Ye Futian's Demon Emperor Technique and Li Chengfeng's Taihuang Overlord Body Technique were both significantly weakened.

At this moment, Yin energy was dominant, but he was not proficient in the magic of the Yin realm and could only rely on attacks with his soul power.

The scimitar used for skinning finally gathered its full power.

The black light on the blade condensed into a human-shaped phantom.

That was his signature technique, "Thousand Layers Peeling," which, with a single stroke, didn't just cut, but peeled away layer by layer.

Each layer of spirit armor is peeled away, each layer of true essence is peeled away, each layer of skin is peeled away, and each layer of muscle is peeled away.

"Go to hell."

He chopped it down.

Zhou Ran raised his right hand, bringing his index and middle fingers together to clamp the blade.

The black light of "Thousand Layers Peeling" touched his fingers and began to peel away.

The first layer, the black-gold scales of the Primordial Overlord Body, were peeled off.

The scales on the fingertips fell off, revealing skin with golden patterns.

Even the second and third layers were easily peeled off.

His skinned face wore a triumphant smile.

The scene remained silent for a full five breaths.

However, Zhou Ran did not disintegrate as expected.

At this moment, he mobilized the purest demonic energy of Ye Futian to forcibly hold up this body.

Zhou Ran misplaced two fingers.

The blade of the scimitar broke in two between the fingers.

"Your knife is good."

"Unfortunately, you're not qualified."

He loosened his grip, and the broken half of the knife clattered to the ground.

Seeing the mangled, bloody figure before him, he lost all courage.

His methods would make even the souls of the underworld wish they were dead.

Moreover, it is a living, breathing human being.

He skinned the animal, threw away the knife handle, and ran away.

Run towards the direction of the eighth seal.

He knew he was no match for them, and even if he died here, he would do anything to break the last lock of the eighth layer of the seal.

Then his mission was accomplished.

Zhou Ran's voice came from behind him.

"I told you."

"I'm in a hurry."

Peeling the skin sent a chill down my spine.

Then came a force that ran through the entire body, from the lower back to the chest, going straight out.

He lowered his head.

A hand came out through his chest.

The black flames of Asura Demon Fire still lingered on his fingertips.

Zhou Ran's hand.

"The City King wants the heart of the Heavenly Corpse."

Zhou Ran whispered in his ear,

"Please take this message back for me."

"I, Zhou Ran, have already decided on that heart."

The peeled eyeballs remained still.

Zhou Ran withdrew his hand, letting the corpse fall to the ground.

He stood there, looking down at the gray line at his feet.

"Thump."

My heart started beating again.

This time, he did not suppress the resonance of the Golden Core.

He squatted down and placed his palms on the ground.

The gray cracks lit up in his dantian.

The eighth seal is right beneath our feet.

The other side of the seal is the heart of the Heavenly Corpse.

The heart is beating.

Zhou Ran closed her eyes.

Within the Golden Core of the Mind, six fundamental elements—the Primordial Desolation, the Dragon Essence, the Heavenly Tribulation, the Demon Emperor, and the Black and White Impermanence—slowly revolve around the three gray cracks.

The frequency of the crack's movement is perfectly synchronized with the heartbeat beneath your feet.

He opened his eyes.

A gray vertical eye was reflected in the depths of his eyes once again.

Those are the eyes of the Heavenly Corpse.

Through those three cracks, the Heavenly Corpse was looking at him.

And he was also looking at the Heavenly Corpse.

Twenty feet away in the rock wall, the body of the Iron Ring Woman twitched.

Her ten fingers tapped the ground uncontrollably.

A rhythm was struck.

A rhythm as fast as a heartbeat.

Zhou Ran stood up and turned to look.

The woman with the iron ring opened her eyes.

The pupils are gray.

Her mouth opened, but the sound that came out was not her own.

Low-pitched.

ancient.

The vibrations came from the deepest part of the Earth's crust.

"You can't stop me."